It's that despite years of claiming by marketers, designers and reviewers that shooting in games is "realistic", it's still a blithe action, performed over and over without any sense of mechanical or emotional complication.
It's that despite years of claiming by marketers, designers, and reviewers that shooting in games is "realistic," it's still a blithe action, performed over and over without any sense of mechanical or emotional complication.
At night, it is surrounded by blithe, raucous activity.
These examples share features in common: the notion that spending cash is a proxy action; a blithe unwillingness to demand value for money; the abuse of numbers, and wishful thinking.
Castro's actions — and his blithe rationales — raise inescapable questions: How many other women are suffering in similar hells while we, meanwhile, fail to recognize men like him, even when they work with us, live near us, smile as we naïvely pass them on the street?
Both feel almost calculated to offend, but like many other action movies of this blithe type, "2 Guns" doesn't take place in the here and the now but in a burlesque version of the same.
The blithe acceptance of catastrophes as spurs to action makes a sort of economic sense, although it can seem cold and unfeeling when we read, for instance, of historical instances such as Victorian administrators responding after the fact to Bengali famines.
He doesn't clear up blots like Lawrence's order for the wholesale killing of prisoners, and is a bit blithe about the political consequences of his actions.
On a different note, Politico's Byers, in response to my inquiry, advises me that Baquet did indeed say what Byers attributed to him -- "he could not go into detail on the issue because it was an intelligence matter" -- and that his exact quote was: it "has to with intel". Dan Gillmor: After earlier blithe assurances, the Times has called its reporter's action 'a mistake'.
But he is less blithe about the accounts he has read of his actions in the Jets' loss to Pittsburgh, when Chrebet threw his hands in the air after one of Ray Lucas's passes had sailed over his head.
The main event itself is an uproarious finale to the picture, featuring a sublimely funny cameo from Fred Willard as Buck Laughlin, the announcer commentating on the action for local TV, insisting on using baseball metaphors from start to finish, and demonstrating a blithe ignorance of everything to do with pedigree dogs: "A miniature breed?
